{"id":2285,"date":"2017-03-20T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T08:46:21","slug":"ode-to-the-slip-stick-aka-slide-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/ode-to-the-slip-stick-aka-slide-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Slip Stick AKA Slide Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2288\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2288\" class=\"wp-image-2288\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"Calculating rule. 1989.0325.07.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657-226x150.jpg 226w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/NMAH-2009-25657.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/collections\/search\/object\/nmah_1214518\">Calculating rule. 1989.0325.07<\/a>. (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reading John Walker&#8217;s post made me think of my high school physics class. We were Manly Men then. We didn&#8217;t have no sissy electronic calculators. We used our Manly Men yellow plastic slide rules. The Manly Men are the ones without the pocket protectors.<\/p>\n<p>The slide rule was an ingenious invention. Instead of looking up things in tables and then adding up the two numbers and getting the answer you used a sliding stick to do the same thing. You could easily multiply and divide this way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uUzSStVnAHk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Mike, there is no cheerleader in the video. You better skip it. )<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what happened to my old slide rule.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to try here is a simulator. Only Manly Men please. No whiners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquark.com\/sliderule\/sim\/n525es\/virtual-n525-es.html\">http:\/\/www.antiquark.com\/sliderule\/sim\/n525es\/virtual-n525-es.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2285\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"2285\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading John Walker&#8217;s post made me think of my high school physics class. We were Manly Men then. We didn&#8217;t have no sissy electronic calculators. We used our Manly Men yellow plastic slide rules. The Manly Men are the ones without the pocket protectors.<\/p>\n<p>The slide rule was an ingenious invention. Instead of looking up things in tables and then adding up the two numbers and getting the answer you used a sliding stick to do the same thing. You could easily multiply and divide this way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>(Mike, there is no cheerleader in the video. You better skip it. )<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what happened to my old slide rule.<\/p>\n<p>For those who want to try here is a simulator. Only Manly Men please. No whiners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiquark.com\/sliderule\/sim\/n525es\/virtual-n525-es.html\">http:\/\/www.antiquark.com\/sliderule\/sim\/n525es\/virtual-n525-es.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/ode-to-the-slip-stick-aka-slide-rule\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}